Relic Diggers heaven - 1700's cabin

[RustyRelics]

Look at this lil' gem I found 5 miles from my house! This dates to the late 1700's, and I am currently trying to get permission to detect it.

 

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[RustyRelics]

Hand hewn sandstone chimney.



Just look at those logs!



Wow. Just wow.

 

[Davers]

Good Luck , that would be a great hunt.

IMO
That would be a good place for an Old Widowed Relic Hunter who likes his privacy to live out his last years.

I'd need a good storage unit tho .

 

[releventchair]

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Among the other construction features , the notching is superb.
Hewn timbers on four sides were/(are) a luxury. Required more labor , but ladies did not mind flat walls inside. Regional effect/tradition turns up hewn vs round semi round logs.
Some areas there were particular cultures doing chimbly work. Or at least affecting it's design.
Curious if your find's chimbly has an iron lintel...

Generous windows may have been an upgrade to original , but regardless , quite a well built home.

 

[Kray Gelder]

A craftsman built that one to last...and it did. Hopefully they had two dimes to rub together.

 

[releventchair]

A craftsman built that one to last...and it did. Hopefully they had two dimes to rub together.

Someone had enough to add a tin roof eventually generations later probably. The door and casing too maybe.
Chimbly does not extend above the roof enough for simple ones to draw well....But flue design matters much also. Could be missing it's/some top material though.

No addition added to main/original structure. Saving labor in materials and building , but not expanding human laborers by increasing family size till main room was too small. Though folks did crowd into structures where necessary too.

Not being broke from a big family ....Maybe the site could have afforded a coin lost....

 

[tamrock]

That's cool. I've been researching my ancestors and found my 5th grandad Anthony Sr. Brandenburg, which is the name I've been passed down to, may have been the first Brandenburg to enter into the territory of Kentucky. It was in Harrodsburg, he joined up as a common soldier around April 1779 there under the command of Col. John Bowman in a campaign against the Indians. I found online a transcript of his appearance in court in Ohio held in 1833 to determined whether or not he was eligible to receive a pension as a revolutionary war veteran. In his own words and with testimony of neighbors and a clergyman vouching that he was a man of honest character, he convinced the court that he was in fact a soldier of that time, but on each campaign he served he was never given any written discharge. In his court case, he describes pretty much to the T an engagement from what I found was the Battle of Chillicothe in the Ohio territory. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Chillicothe He lived his life out in Warren county Ohio and though his son Henry Harrison Brandenburg I came. I can only picture that a log home like that is what my early American ancestors would maybe have lived in. That old structure is something that should be preserved. So many of them here in Colorado I've watched slowly crumble to the ground over the last 40+ years of living here. Great imagine that old cabin makes.

 

[BLK HOLE]

Hope you have success getting permission!

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Awesome place to hunt and possible live in for a get-away cabin.